Archives for 2013

FFI staff spent two jam-packed days in Atlanta with 13 agencies from around the country exploring formation of a Domestic and Sexual Violence (DSV) Cohort Demonstration Project. These agencies share a commitment to looking at ways mainstream services can be redesigned to become more people- and family-centered, so survivors facing complex challenges have the freedom and resources to live healthy lives on their own terms. Based on the discussions at the meeting, there is an overwhelming desire to form a learning and action community that will work together on bringing the more effective and innovative practices to light, as well as on strategies to remove barriers to those practices. Organizations represented at the meeting included:

Caminar Latino in Doraville, GA
Division of Violence Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA
The Center for Hope and Healing (CHH) in Lowell, MA
The Cherokee Family Violence Center (CFVC) in Canton, GA
Coburn Place Safe Haven in Indianapolis, IN
DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence (DCCADV) in Washington, D.C.
District Alliance for Safe Housing (DASH) Washington, D.C.
Friendship Home in Lincoln, NE
The National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities in St.Paul, MN
New Orleans Family Justice Center In New Orleans, LA
REACH Beyond Domestic Violence in Waltham, MA
Empower Yolo (formerly:Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center) in Woodland, CA
Walnut Avenue Women’s Center (WAWC) in Santa Cruz, CA

Photo of all the representatives from the listed organizations at the Atlanta meeting.

Though the news about record numbers of children and families facing entrenched poverty, homelessness and trauma can be dire, we at the Full Frame Initiative are focusing on our work to leverage the bright spots– those efforts around the country that are demonstrating that something entirely different is possible. Read more and then donate to FFI ignite more bright spots for change before the year is out!

Our fall 2013 newsletter is now available, announcing our new video overview of the Five Domains of Wellbeing. This issue also features the great work happening in Missouri’s juvenile justice system and the latest news about the Full Frame Initiative around the country. If you like what you read, please subscribe to the newsletter, and share it with a friend or colleague!

FFI is producing a video to use in our coaching and training around the Five Domains of Wellbeing. This video comes out of our partnership with the Missouri Division of Youth Services. The video production would not have been possible without the additional support of local actors who lent their talents, and businesses that provided in-kind support to help feed the cast and crew. Look for more information about the video and related materials in the next FFI newsletter.

If poverty, violence and trauma are wily, shape-shifting (i.e., “wicked”) social problems , how do we even begin to craft solutions? Stanford Social Innovation Review just posted To Get to the Good, You Gotta Dance With the Wicked, co-authored by Cindy Gibson, FFI founder Katya Smyth, Gail Nayowith, and Jonathan Zaff

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